CONTEXT Peer-group deviance is strongly associated with externalizing behaviors. We have limited knowledge of the sources of individual differences in peer-group deviance. OBJECTIVE To clarify genetic and environmental contributions to peer-group deviance in twins from midchildhood through early adulthood. DESIGN Retrospective assessments using a life-history calendar. Analysis by biometric...

Responding to Wu and LeBreton’s (2011) call for further study, this paper examines dispositional predictors of organizational deviance. In a sample of 428 participants, self-report data were collected anonymously. Using hierarchical regression, the dispositional variables of entitlement and conscientiousness were similarly strong and statistically significant predictors of organizational devian...

The evolutional optical behaviours (turn-on dynamics) of a four-level double-control tripod-configuration (electromagnetically induced transparency) system are considered based on the transient solution to the equation of motion of the probability amplitudes of the atomic levels. As the most remarkable property (quantum interference between the two control transitions) will arise in the present...

A density matrix treatment of the time evolution of the third order polarization response describing the optical heterodyne detected (OHD) transient birefringence and dichroism excited by ultrafast pulses is given. The relationship between frequency domain (Raman scattering) and time domain (pump-probe) spectroscopies is revealed by this pathway explicit description. Constructive and destructiv...

Title of Document: DETERMINANTS AND BEHAVIORAL CORRELATES OF STATE-LEVEL ANXIETY IN CLINICAL COUPLE INTERACTIONS Taryn M. Dezfulian, M.S., 2005 Directed By: Professor Norman E. Epstein, Department of Family Studies Extant research demonstrated that clinically diagnosable disorders such as depression and anxiety have detrimental effects on dyadic satisfaction in couple relationships, but studies...

Schulze’s rule and ranked pairs are two Condorcet methods that both satisfy many natural axiomatic properties. Schulze’s rule is used in the elections of many organizations, including the Wikimedia Foundation, the Pirate Party of Sweden and Germany, the Debian project, and the Gento Project. Both rules are immune to control by cloning alternatives, but little is otherwise known about their stra...

This paper presents two ways of building dedicated embedded operating systems. The constructive approach consists in starting from a minimal kernel and adding abstractions as they are needed, whereas the destructive approach promotes the idea of customizing an existing operating system by removing unnecessary abstractions. We compare these two approaches on the example of building an embedded J...

In an ever-increasing digital world, the need for secure communications over unsecured channels like Internet has exploded. To meet the different security requirements, communication devices have to perform computationally-intensive cryptographic operations. Hardware processor or co-processor are therefore often needed to meet goals such as speed, ubiquity or cost-effectiveness. For such device...

We study the complexity of possible constructive/destructive control by adding voters (PCCAV/PDCAV) and deleting voters (PCCDV/PDCDV) under nine different models of partial information for k-Approval and k-Veto. For the two destructive variants, we can further settle a polynomial-time result holding even for each scoring rule. Generally, in voter control, an external agent (called the chair) tr...